Google Labs was a page created by Google to demonstrate and test new Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

 projects. Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

 calls Google Labs,
Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

 also uses an invitation-only phase for trusted testers to test projects including Gmail

Gmail

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, Google Calendar

Google Calendar

Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. It became available on April 13, 2006, and exited the beta stage in July 2009...

 and Google Wave

Google Wave

Apache Wave is a software framework for real-time collaborative editing online. Google Inc. originally developed it as Google Wave.It was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009....

 and many of these have their own "labs" webpages for experimental projects unique to each product.

Google announced that in September

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 of 2011, they will be discontinuing Google Labs.

Google Labs closed on October 17, 2011 for some users.

Logo

In 2006, all Google Labs products had a consistent logo, using the flask, and a gray title, as opposed to other color-coded Google products, such as Google News

Google News

Google News is a free news aggregator provided by Google Inc, selecting recent items from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm....

 and Google Maps

Google Maps

Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free , that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API...

. This warns users that the product may contain bugs, and could be unfit for general use.

Google Labs Engineer

Currently the chief engineers of Google Labs are:

1. Mark Friedman
2. Aravindh Murthy
3. Yushi Jing
4. Joe Marshall
5. Andy Hertzfeld

Phased Out

On July 20, 2011, Google has decided to phase Google Labs out in order to provide better focus on non-experimental applications. Google said that they will end the experiments and try to put them in different products.

External links

no longer in use

• Example of a Google Labs experiment on "promote and remove" personalized search